Congenital Heart Disease: a Pictorial Illustration of Putting Segmental Approach into Practice
Investigative Magnetic Resonance Imaging
;
: 205-211, 2015.
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in English
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ABSTRACT
The human heart is a complex organ in which many complicated congenital defects may happen and some of them require surgical intervention. Due to the vast complexity of varied anatomical presentations, establishing an accurate and consistent nomenclature system is utmost important to facilitate effective communication among pediatric cardiologists, cardiothoracic surgeons and radiologists. The Van Praagh segmental approach to the complex congenital heart disease (CHD) was developed in the 1960s and has been used widely as the language for describing complex anatomy of CHD over the decades. It utilizes a systematic and sequential method to describe the cardiac segments and connections which in turn allows accurate, comprehensive and unambiguous description of CHD. It can also be applied to multiple imaging modalities such as echocardiogram, cardiac CT and MRI. The Van Praagh notation demonstrates a group of three letters, with each letter representative for a key embryologic region of cardiac anatomy the atria, ventricles and great vessels. By using a 3-steps approach, we can evaluate complex CHD precisely and have no difficulties in communicating with other medial colleague. This pictorial essay revisits the logical steps of segmental approach, followed by a pictorial illustration of its application.
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Main subject:
Congenital Abnormalities
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Magnetic Resonance Imaging
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Heart
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Heart Defects, Congenital
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Logic
Limits:
Humans
Language:
English
Journal:
Investigative Magnetic Resonance Imaging
Year:
2015
Type:
Article
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